I'm trying to update the daily_budget parameter for multiple adsets within a singular call. I've been able to get this working in batches, but unfortunately, according to the batching documentation:
Batch requests are limited to 50 requests per batch. Each call within the batch is counted separately for the purposes of calculating API call limits and resource limits. For example, a batch of 10 API calls will count as 10 calls and each call within the batch contributes to CPU resource limits in the same manner.
Which is a problem for larger accounts, wherein I may need to update a very large number of adsets. Therefore, I wish to make a function to perform this task in a single API call, similar to how one can get daily_budgets for multiple adsets within a single Meta API call:
class MetaAPI:
def __init__(
self, access_token: str, ad_account_id_val: str, sqlapi: SQLAPI, test=False
):
self.access_token = access_token
self.ad_account_id = "act_" + ad_account_id_val
self.sqlapi = sqlapi
self.test = test
self.root_url = "https://graph.facebook.com/v18.0/"
self.campaigns_ext = "/campaigns"
self.adsets_ext = "/adsets"
self.insights_ext = "/insights"
def fetch_group_adset_insights(
self, adset_id_list: List[str], insights_list: List[str]
) -> Dict[str, Tuple[Dict[str, float], str]]:
params_insights_get = {
"access_token": self.access_token,
"level": "adset",
"filtering": str(
[
{
"field": "adset.id",
"operator": "IN",
"value": adset_id_list,
}
]
),
"fields": ",".join(
insights_list + ["optimization_goal", "adset_id"]
), # 'objective,impressions',
"time_range[since]": f"{self.date_start}",
"time_range[until]": f"{self.date_end}",
}
response_insights_get = rq.get(
self.root_url + self.ad_account_id + self.insights_ext,
params=params_insights_get,
)
I was able to do this on a per-adset basis with the following function:
def update_object_budgets(self, object_id: str, budget: float):
"""
Updates the budget of the object (adset or campaign) to the given value.
"""
url = self.root_url + object_id
params = {"access_token": self.access_token, "daily_budget": f"{budget}"}
response = rq.post(url, data=params)
return response.status_code == 200 # 200: success
but this doesn't seem to translate for multiple adsets:
def update_objects_budgets(
self, object_id_list: List[str], budget_list: List[float]
):
"""
Updates the budget of the object (adset or campaign) to the given value.
"""
url = self.root_url
params = {
"access_token": self.access_token,
"adset_id": object_id_list,
"daily_budget": budgets_list,
}
response = rq.post(url, data=params)
return response.status_code == 200 # 200: success
since it returns the following JSON response: {'error': {'message': 'Unsupported post request. Please read the Graph API documentation at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api', 'type': 'GraphMethodException', 'code': 100, 'error_subcode': 33, 'fbtrace_id': 'APtBihvkXqpal9gGI9wCwXZ'}}
How do I solve this problem?
Therefore, I wish to make a function to perform this task in a single API call
That is, in all likelihood, not going to help.
Marketing API has its own set of rules in terms of rate limiting, but I am pretty sure that what https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview/rate-limiting/#faq says, applies here as well:
What do we consider an API call?
All calls count towards the rate limits, not just individual API requests. For example, you can make a single API request specifying multiple IDs, but each ID counts as one API call.